[lostlogin]

I’m sure this has been said before, but iPlayer is a bit of an abomination, but the content is excellent. The BBC have this weird thing where content expires, which is annoying. I rate that up there with my local library that lets you ‘borrow’ books digitally, but they ‘expire’ after a couple of weeks. If you forget to ‘return’ them you get a notice and a reminder to destroy them. How did this happen?

[untog]

Having experienced various streaming services in the US, I find iPlayer to be anything but an abomination. Don't think I've ever experienced lag with it, and the ability to watch live shows is really very impressive.

[gerdesj]

I am genuinely glad that my TV licence is being put to good use (in the UK, public broadcast TV is paid for: we pay a licence fee to own a TV, currently £147) There are around 60M people here in ~27M households(do the maths)

The BBC (Beeb, Auntie) is an anachronism in the modern world but it works. For example Blue Planet II is an example of cutting edge journalism that I don't think could have happened if Netflix, Amazon were the only game in town.

[emodendroket]

Blue Planet II is great, but is it really journalism?

[lostlogin]

I’ve never watched anything live, but the combined action of adverts and interface gets me.

It doesn’t seem to remember where I left off, they stick to the weekly schedule, they ‘expire’ content and the navigation is nowhere near the Netflix standard. It is a load better than my local offering (Lightbox) which is not good. Audio sync being my current pain point.

[lhopki01]

Adverts? For iPlayer?